Lepanthes josei Hespenh. & Dod 1990 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

TYPE Drawing by © Hespenheide and Moscosoa 6: 186 Hespenh. & Dod 1990

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Common Name Jose's Lepanthes [Dominican Dr. Jose de Jesus Jimenez self Taught Botanist later 1900's]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Jarabacoa in the Cordillera Central of the Dominican Republic in wet montane broadleaved forests at elevations around 1100 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 5 to 7, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, red suffused beneath, conves, elliptical-ovate, subacute to obtuse, broadly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on an erect, held beneath the leaf, peduncle .28 to .52" [2 to 3 mm] long, rachis congested, distichous, to .2" [5 mm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with slightly echinate, as long as the pedicel floral bracts.

"Identified by a small to medium habit with a short, congested raceme borne beneath the convex, ovate leaf, entire, acute sepals, petals with triangular opposte and a small lip with convex shorter than the stout column. The margin of the concave body is protuberant with the oblong appendix long ciliate at the tip." Ackerman 2014

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Moscosoa 6: 186 Hespenh. & Dod 1990 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014

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